My real point here is to clarify what the error you were receiving implies. It will not be fun to try to track down a variable that is not being passed when that is not what "unexpected token [something]" means. You can read more about what that phrase means here:
As far as my explanation in the post
above goes, what I am trying to say is that the reason my adding brackets worked is because you had a bracket turned the wrong way. Therefore, adding a bracket closed the turned around bracket on line 15. Sure, there was nothing inside of it, but the compiler doesn't care. however, in closing the turned around bracket, I was now missing a bracket and I had to add one to close the whole function. had i realized that your bracket was turned the wrong way i would not have had to do any of that.
I'm not sure why only fixing i works for you. perhaps you wrote your code incorrectly when you pasted it so when you are using the code in your IDE you get different results. alls i can tell you is that when i copy and paste the code from your initial first post and run it in my IDE, it always goes the same. i have just tried this procedure five times and the following is always how it goes down.
(any CAPS you see is for differentiation between code you wrote and comments I'm adding in your code. I am not yelling or emphasizing a point.)
the first error I get is:
"unexpected token void" and it highlights line 20 (numbers from code above): void checkIftoClearWord(){
the reason for this is because if you look at line 15, you'll notice that your bracket is turned the wrong way:
- void keyPressed(){
- word += key;
- checkIftoClearWord();
- for(int i = 0; i < wordsToMatch.length; i++){
- if(isWordMatch()) {
- println("word detected!");
- { // 15: BRACKET TURNED THE WRONG WAY
- }
-
- }
after I turn the bracket the right way, the next error I receive is:
"unexpected token { " and it highlights line 28 (numbers from above) return word.equals(currentWord){
This is because you have a bracket instead of semi-colon on line 28.
- boolean isWordMatch(){
- String currentWord = wordsToMatch[i];
- return word.equals(currentWord){ // 28: BRACKET INSTEAD OF SEMI-COLON
- }
Then when I run the program again, I get "cannot find anything named i" and it highlights line 27: String currentWord = wordsToMatch[i]; This is the problem of scope and not passing i.
